1/72 Bristol 138A by NOVO (originally a FROG tooling)

[Lucky13]

Looks great btw!

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[fastmongrel]

Painting finished just going to let everything dry hard and then glue on canopy and varnish ready for transfers

 

[Capt. Vick]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far!

 

[fastmongrel]

I hate doing individual letter and number transfers. I can never get them lined up

 

[Wurger]

 

[fastmongrel]

That's going to have to do. There's a point where trying to get it perfect makes it worse.

 

[Wurger]

 

[rochie]

looks ok to me

 

[SaparotRob]

Have you tried drinking more heavily?

 

[fastmongrel]

I didn't have any 8" numbers and letters so I had to use the NOVO ones. They have yellowed a lot but I am hoping several coats of varnish will tone them down.

 

[Wurger]

You could put the decal on the sunlight for some of time. The yellowish tone of the clear background would disappear.

 

[buffnut453]

I didn't have any 8" numbers and letters so I had to use the NOVO ones. They have yellowed a lot but I am hoping several coats of varnish will tone them down.
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You could try minimizing the impact by overpainting the clear sections with the base fuselage colour. You have to use a very fine brush and be careful not to overpaint the letter/numerals...but it would hide the yellowed decal carrier film.

 

[fastmongrel]

You could try minimizing the impact by overpainting the clear sections with the base fuselage colour. You have to use a very fine brush and be careful not to overpaint the letter/numerals...but it would hide the yellowed decal carrier film.

I think my eyeballs would burst into flames trying this. I might have been able to do this twenty years ago

You could put the decal on the sunlight for some of time. The yellowish tone of the clear background would disappear.

You do know I live in Britain dont you it could take years of precious sunlight

 

[Wurger]

You do know I live in Britain dont you it could take years of precious sunlight

Yes I do. But it is a matter of a couple of hours on a sunny day. But you could use an UV lamp when cloudy and raining outside.

 

[Capt. Vick]

After the fact, but you could have perhaps lined the letters up on some clear decal sheet with lines drawn on it and than cut it out and applied it as one big decal. Maybe even add some of that decal protect stuff before. Just a thought for the future?

 

[SaparotRob]

The things one learns here.

 

[fastmongrel]

You could put the decal on the sunlight for some of time. The yellowish tone of the clear background would disappear.

I have had the model on the window sill for about 90 minutes and already I can see a difference between the sunshine side and the unlit side. Great tip